Murders, The Capitol Attack And An Acquittal: How Far Have We Really Come? — Blavity

Davis at a Juneteenth rally and dockworker shutdown at the Port of Oakland, in Oakland, Calif., June 19, 2020. Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press

Recently, I was considering how far we have come as Black women in these United States in 2021. I realize that we’ve come this far by faith — that was one of my grandmother’s, Ruth Westcott James (1913–1998), favorite songs. She never forgot that she was the granddaughter of former slaves.